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Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Data Allocation for Distributed Programs, Liono Setiowijoso
Disequilibrium Transition of the Consumer Goods Market in China, 1954-1991, Hui Shu
Electrostatic Interactions at Membrane-water Interfaces and Distribution of 2, 4, 6-Trichlorophenol in a Membrane Model System, Isolde Sieder
Alterations, Edith Kay Slusarenko
Educating Innovation Managers: Strategic Issues of Businessand Higher Education, Jim Snell
Intentions to Cooperate with Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs) in Child Protective Proceedings: The Role of Perceived Social Pressure in The Theory of Planned Behavior, Yuko Sato Spofford
Employee Involvement in Quality Improvement: A Comparison of American and Japanese Manufacturing Firms Operating in the US, Bud Stratton
Behavioral Differences in the Classroom: U.S. University Teachers and Chinese University Teachers, Xiaocheih Sun
Optimizing Operations in theGasoline Storage Unit, Kawin Suvatte
Learning work in the ESL classroom : an evaluation of textbooks designed to teach ESL in the workplace, Amy Taylor-Henry
Paperless Engineering Documentation System, Martina Testa, Carl Wu, and Patricia Zarate
Organizational Vision for Technology Assimilation: TheStrategic Roads to Knowledge-Based Systems Success, Usanee Thiravaja
The Hero at Rest, David Tinsley
Beam Modes of Lasers with Misaligned Complex Optical Elements, Anthony A. Tovar
Prioritizing Telecommunications Technologies for Long-RangeR&D Planning to the Year 2006, Alex Tran
From Promised Lands to Promised Landfill: The Iconography of Oregon's Twentieth-Century Utopian Myth, Jeffry Lloyd Uecker
School Attendance and Achievement in a Population of Ecuadorian Underage Street Workers, Rossana Viteri
Some Relationships Between Sedimentary Trace Metal Concentrations and Freshwater Phytoplankton and Sedimentary Diatom Species Composition, Allan Hayes Vogel
Evaluable Functions in the Gödel Programming Language: Parsing and Representing Rewrite Rules, Janet Vorvick
Business Process Management: Survey and Methodology, Chanujarb Watanakithavonkul
Lettres d'une Peruvienne: An Enlightenment Utopian Novel, Susan Leigh Weir
The Portland Learning Community : a history, Martin White
Implementing Community Policing: a Documentation and Assessment of Organizational Change, EmmaJean Williams
The Portland Public School Police: Formative Years - 1937 to 1953, Natalie Anne Woods